📖Glossary

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AMM	Automated Market Maker, the algorithmic price discovery mechanism that allows users to interact with smart contracts and enable liquidity pools. Users while interacting with Timeswap AMM can automatically derive interest rates & collateral values to be locked without depending on any external price feed
Annual Percentage Rate (APR)	It is the expected yearly interest to be paid by a borrower or the expected yearly yield received by the lender.
Arbitrage	Arbitrage is the simultaneous purchase and sale of the same asset in different markets in order to profit from tiny differences in the asset's listed price.
Arbitrageur	An arbitrageur is a type of investor who attempts to profit from market inefficiencies. Arbitrageurs exploit price inefficiencies by making simultaneous trades that offset each other to capture risk-free profits.
CDP Ratio	A Collateralized Debt Position is a loan position created by a borrower by locking collateral to borrow another asset
Collateral	Collateral is essentially the security backing a transaction. Like in traditional loans such as a mortgage, which has the property assigned as collateral that can be sold off to cover a default, DeFi also backs any lending/borrowing by the use of various crypto assets.
Collateral factor	The Collateral Factor represents how much a user can borrow against the collateral supplied to the protocol, in percent terms. For example, if a pool has a collateral factor of 50%, then for $10 supplied, $10 * 50% = $5 of value can be borrowed against.
Collateralization Value	It denotes the value of assets pledged to secure a loan. This parameter is used by the lenders to measure the risk of lending
Divergent / Impermanent Loss	It is the temporary loss to a liquidity provider due to the price divergence in the pair of the liquidity pool
ERC-1155	ERC-1155 is a token standard that enables the efficient transfer of fungible and non-fungible tokens in a single transaction.
ERC-20	The token standard on Ethereum allows new tokens to be minted to be used in various apps. Introduced by the 20th Ethereum Request for Comment (ERC).
Liquidity	Liquidity is a collection of assets locked into a fund, called a pool, through the use of a smart contract. Liquidity pools enable DeFi projects to offer a decentralized exchange, lending, borrowing, and other functions.
Liquidity Mining	Its the process of adding liquidity to the liquidity pools on protocols and in return being rewarded with native tokens on top of regular yield
LP (Liquidity Providers)	LP or Liquidity Providers are the people who initiate a liquidity pool for a set of crypto assets. These liquidity pools have funds locked in the smart contract for the set of tokens that are part of the pool. This enables the algorithmic market creation for the exchange of these tokens directly via the liquidity in the pool instead of having to rely on buyers and sellers
Option	An option contract is a financial agreement that entitles you to buy or sell an asset at a pre-determined price.
Oracles	Oracles are third-party services that provide real-time data & any external data to smart contracts which are outside of their ecosystem. Currently, DeFi protocols rely on oracles for real-time on-chain data like the price of assets.
Over-collateralization (OC)	Over-collateralization (OC) is the provision of collateral that is worth more than enough to cover potential losses in cases of default. It is used to effectively manage risk and involves placing an asset as collateral on a loan where the value of the asset exceeds the value of the loan.
Pool/Liquidity Pool	A liquidity pool is a digital pile of cryptocurrency locked in a smart contract. This results in creating liquidity for faster transactions.
Slippage	When the expected price of a trade and the price at which a trade is actually executed is different, this can be referred to as slippage. This typically occurs during times of high volatility or when the liquidity pool is too shallow to maintain a constant bid/ask spread.
Spot Price	It is the present market exchange price of the collateral with the asset
Transition/ Strike price	The price at which a borrower decides whether or not he wants to exercise his right to sell the locked collateral to the lenders is what we are calling the transition price, which in the context of the options is simply the strike price.